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IOTA Craft Co-lab Symposium
Team! The IOTA Curatorium has been assembled, and they are CURRENTLY IN BOORLOO (Perth) checking out the neighbourhood, in advance of making some great calls as to who gets into the next Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in 2027. If you want the chance to meet the team – get on the ground floor, as they…
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I ♥ ADC
ADC has just staged THE Helen Britton retrospective, endowing her with the Master Maker – Living Treasure of Australian Craft title, the latest in the series. That show, I’m reliably informed, will travel around the country, so I’m not as sad as I could be that I’m heading over just DAYS after it has been…
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Cheongju 2025 – the blossoming
The Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025: Recrafting Tomorrow is live, presenting uplifting, thoughtful, soulful, and just plain jaw-dropping craft until the 2nd of November. The Competition Exhibition is incredible, and peppered with an eye-bulging array of craft-forms. The Main Exhibition (of which myself, Jacky Cheng, the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Susie Vickery are all a part)…
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Workshop – Thursday 11/9
Hello friends! Just a quickie – I’m back and full of stories from my South Korean Cheongju Craft Biennale adventure – keep an eye here and on socials for a bountiful week in review all this week… AND I’m leading a short class on reclaiming electrical copper wire to make jewellery this Thursday at MJAC. Please come…
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The Poetics of Place II
From the Atta Gallery website: Poetics of Place ll by Australian Artists, Curated by Melinda Young May 15, 2025 – July 13, 2025 The Poetics of Place brings together the work of 16 makers across contemporary craft, object-based and textile practices whose work explores, expands and troubles the concept of ‘place’ in post-colonial Australia and Aotearoa.…
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On the horizon…
It may look like a clean slate, but it’s the incoming traffic just above the horizon line that’s widening eyes and setting my little duck-legs to paddlin’. March: Heading to Munich for the jewellery-obsessive’s most favoured/feared hang, Munich Jewellery Week. No, I’m not in the IHM’s one and only Schmuck exhibition this year (but great…
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Banner + Badge – New Website!
The decade-long wait for new content on my main website is over! There are not enough emoji to convey the effort expended, and the gratitude and relief to have it up and out in the world. https://www.melissacameron.net/exhibition/banner_and_badge/ You just gotta see it for yourself 😉 Before I get into that, and the show, I need…
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Banner and Badge
Please come to my solo exhibition! 5 October – 11 October Mon – Sun: 10am – 4pm Exhibition Opening: 4 October, 6pm – 8pm Talk with Kaori Juzu (JPN/DK): 6 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm PS Art Space 22 Pakenham StreetFremantle, Western Australia 6160 A solo exhibition by jeweller and public artist Melissa Cameron, presenting her…
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Lost in Translation
IOTA is off to Bangkok – Jude, Holly and I will see you at Atta gallery on the 8th of September!! Lost in Translation A Group Exhibition by 18 Artists from the Indian Ocean Region Curated by by Haisang Javanalikhikara and Atty Tantivit 29 August – 20 October 2024 Opening Reception on 8 September 2024;…
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Garland Podcast
We’re aware of this situation, that Garland magazine has a podcast? Well, it does, and to reflect on some more of my history of street-related jewellery antics (in line with the current The Street issue of the mag, on which I’ve been the guest editor), Kevin Murray interviewed me for the latest ep of the…
